On Sunday 06 January 2008 21:05:23 Hendrik Sattler wrote: > Am Sonntag 06 Januar 2008 schrieb Michael Buesch: > > The b43 driver will need an incompatible firmware upgrade, soon. > > I'm probably going to do this in 2.6.25 or 2.6.26. > > > > The update will require people to download and extract updated > > officially supported firmware. The firmware will be linked to > > from the usual place at linuxwireless.org. > > The driver will print a verbose error message when it detects > > too old firmware and abort initialization. > > > > This is needed in order to add support for new devices (N-PHY). > > Broadcom changed the ABI of the firmware, so we are forced to also > > change the ABI of the driver. > > > > I'm very sorry for the inconvenience. > > Do these firmware files go to a different directory then? I would like to run > my current kernel (b43 from git or 2.6.24) and the new one without having to > exchange files every time I boot another kernel version. > And yes, WLAN is my _only_ connection to the internet.
see "fwpostfix" module parameter -- Greetings Michael. _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev